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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-01-08 16:38:10 -0800 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-01-09 00:38:51 +0000 |
| commit | af0f49e80dce20b50ca757b52c2454e137ce1c74 (patch) | |
| tree | f4bdde99005a0d8374ebea72ff76f58b4c30073c /doc/dumpcap.pod | |
| parent | 94479aded162aecce6289bdf26f95073bed0dc55 (diff) | |
Use pcapng as the name of the file format.
At one point, I remember a discussion resulting in the official name of
the next-generation replacement for pcap format being changed to
"pcapng", with no hyphen.
Make Wireshark reflect that.
Change-Id: Ie66fb13a0fe3a8682143106dab601952e9154e2a
Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/25214
Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/dumpcap.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/dumpcap.pod | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/dumpcap.pod b/doc/dumpcap.pod index e1e816bc4f..4c38223ef9 100644 --- a/doc/dumpcap.pod +++ b/doc/dumpcap.pod @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ S<[ B<--time-stamp-type> E<lt>typeE<gt> ]> B<Dumpcap> is a network traffic dump tool. It lets you capture packet data from a live network and write the packets to a file. B<Dumpcap>'s -default capture file format is B<pcap-ng> format. +default capture file format is B<pcapng> format. When the B<-P> option is specified, the output file is written in the B<pcap> format. @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ read data from the standard input. Data read from pipes must be in standard pcap format. This option can occur multiple times. When capturing from multiple -interfaces, the capture file will be saved in pcap-ng format. +interfaces, the capture file will be saved in pcapng format. Note: the Win32 version of B<Dumpcap> doesn't support capturing from pipes or stdin! @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ B<TShark>; its format is subject to change from release to release. =item -n -Save files as pcap-ng. This is the default. +Save files as pcapng. This is the default. =item -N E<lt>packet limitE<gt> @@ -290,8 +290,8 @@ promiscuous mode. =item -P -Save files as pcap instead of the default pcap-ng. In situations that require -pcap-ng, such as capturing from multiple interfaces, this option will be +Save files as pcap instead of the default pcapng. In situations that require +pcapng, such as capturing from multiple interfaces, this option will be overridden. =item -q @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ the default capture link type is used if provided. Add a capture comment to the output file. This option is only available if we output the captured packets to a -single file in pcap-ng format. Only one capture comment may be set per +single file in pcapng format. Only one capture comment may be set per output file. =item --list-time-stamp-types |